Some Like It Hot
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Some Like It Hot is a classic 1959 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon, widely acclaimed for its witty script and cross-dressing hijinks.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Some Like It Hot canonical | 39 |
| Some Like It Hot (stage musical) | 3 |
| film "Some Like It Hot" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T408464 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Some Like It Hot Context triple: [United Artists, produced, Some Like It Hot]
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A.
On the Town
On the Town is a 1944 Broadway musical with music by Leonard Bernstein that follows three sailors on 24-hour shore leave in New York City, later adapted into a popular 1949 film.
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B.
The Band Wagon
The Band Wagon is a classic 1953 MGM musical film starring Fred Astaire, celebrated for its sophisticated song-and-dance numbers and backstage showbiz storyline.
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C.
The Gay Divorcee
The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, celebrated for its elegant dance sequences and classic songs.
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D.
Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain is a classic 1952 American musical comedy film, celebrated for its iconic song-and-dance numbers and its satirical look at Hollywood’s transition from silent films to talkies.
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E.
Stir Crazy
Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, best known for starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder as two friends wrongly imprisoned after being framed for a bank robbery.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Some Like It Hot Target entity description: Some Like It Hot is a classic 1959 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon, widely acclaimed for its witty script and cross-dressing hijinks.
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A.
On the Town
On the Town is a 1944 Broadway musical with music by Leonard Bernstein that follows three sailors on 24-hour shore leave in New York City, later adapted into a popular 1949 film.
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B.
The Band Wagon
The Band Wagon is a classic 1953 MGM musical film starring Fred Astaire, celebrated for its sophisticated song-and-dance numbers and backstage showbiz storyline.
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C.
The Gay Divorcee
The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, celebrated for its elegant dance sequences and classic songs.
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D.
Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain is a classic 1952 American musical comedy film, celebrated for its iconic song-and-dance numbers and its satirical look at Hollywood’s transition from silent films to talkies.
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E.
Stir Crazy
Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, best known for starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder as two friends wrongly imprisoned after being framed for a bank robbery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Some Like It Hot Description of subject: Some Like It Hot is a classic 1959 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon, widely acclaimed for its witty script and cross-dressing hijinks.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
film "Some Like It Hot"
this entity surface form:
Some Like It Hot (stage musical)
this entity surface form:
Some Like It Hot (stage musical)
this entity surface form:
Some Like It Hot (stage musical)
subject surface form:
Jack Lemmon
subject surface form:
John Uhler Lemmon III